[Grassroots-l] [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Sat Feb 23 23:20:58 EST 2013


For all those who were at the OLPC SF meeting today,  Andres Aguirre
tells me that the CAD design will be updated in a few days to the
newest version. The current design is at
http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Mec%C3%A1nica_Buti%C3%A1_V1.8

The rest of this email has links to the logic board and the vendor
that makes these online.

Sameer

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
<alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> From: sverma at sfsu.edu
>> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:36:45 -0800
>> To: martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com
>> CC: grassroots at lists.laptop.org; olpc-open at lists.laptop.org;
>> adborden at live.com; noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net;
>> olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org; alanjas at hotmail.com; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Martin Abente
>> <martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > +1 Is there any way to buy an already assembled one? From you or anyone
>> > else
>> > inside the project.
>> >
>>
>> One of the things I want to explore is to see if we can produce these
>> locally in San Francisco. Hence the cc to noisebridge.
>
> Good!
>
> Now we are using the service of Seeedstudio [1] that makes a good boards.
> (Only the board, without any component). Each one for 3 US Dollars if use
> the standar shipping.
>
> The others components are "low cost".. the most expensive is the PIC18F4550
> but you can found for 4 US Dolars in ebay .
> And the RJ45 ports.. I'm not sure of the cost of that.
>
> One clock of 20 mhz ~ 1 dolar..
>
> 14 resistences ~ less than 1 dolar
>
> some capacitors.. two buttons.. and one USB port (type B)
>
> that is all! The finished board:
>
> http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Archivo:Usb4butia_up_view.jpg
>
>
> [1] http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/fusion-pcb-service-p-835.html?cPath=185
>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>>
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
>> > <alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> +1
>> >>
>> >> That wiki entry is a bit old.. Now we don't use Arduino, we use the
>> >> USB4Butia.
>> >> USB4Butia can be home-made build with low cost materials [1]
>> >> That means USB4Butia is a "truly free (as in freedom)" board [2]
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> >>
>> >> http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/USB4buti%C3%A1_tutorial
>> >>
>> >> [2]
>> >>
>> >> http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/technology/usb4butia_a_truly_free_as_in_freedom_input_output_board.html
>> >>
>> >> Regards!
>> >>
>> >> Alan
>> >>
>> >> ________________________________
>> >> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:35:22 -0800
>> >> From: sverma at sfsu.edu
>> >> To: adborden at live.com
>> >> CC: olpc-open at lists.laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org;
>> >> grassroots at lists.laptop.org; noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net;
>> >> olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org
>> >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I'll bring the Butia robot.
>> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Robotics#Buti.C3.A1_Project
>> >> Anybody from Noisebridge (cc'd) interested in joining?
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Sameer
>> >> On Feb 12, 2013 9:09 AM, "Aaron Borden" <adborden at live.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> OLPC San Francisco will be hosting this month's meeting on Saturday,
>> >> February 23rd, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market
>> >> Street, Room 553.
>> >>
>> >> Everyone is welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be
>> >> discussing the latest in OLPC events and give updates on our local (and
>> >> global) projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest
>> >> builds to play around with, too. Please post with any additional agenda
>> >> items.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Aaron
>> >>
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